David Hansen: 26 books
Civilized Violence
Subjectivity, Gender and Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on what attracts audiences to representations of violence in the first place. Drawing on historical-sociology,...
The Art of Pastoring
Ministry Without All the Answers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
The Art of Pastoring,From the Inside OutFrom Calling to Living Parable**The Art of Pastoring
by David T. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
David Hansen employs the idea of teaching as a vocation or calling to analyze and interpret case studies drawn from fieldwork. Based on a 3-year study of the everyday working lives of four teachers in a large urban setting—two work in a public high school, one in a Catholic high school for boys,...
The Teacher and the World
A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's 2013 Critics Choice Award!
Teachers the world over are seeking creative ways to respond to the problems and possibilities generated by globalization. Many of them work with children and youth from increasingly varied backgrounds,...
by David Phillips Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The Native American drive for self-governance is the most important civil rights struggle of our time - a struggle too often covered up. In Native Americans, The Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice, David Phillips Hansen lays out the church's role in helping America heal its bleeding...
A Visual Guide to Gospel Events
Fascinating Insights into Where They Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As the inspired authors of the Bible relayed the story of salvation, they frequently mentioned place names that contributed to the story. Yet readers who are separated from the texts by thousands of years and thousands of miles are often unable to fully understand or appreciate those references. In...
Climate Change in Wildlands
Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only accelerate. But public sentimhas taken a long time to catch...
Don't Call It a Comeback (Foreword by D. A. Carson): The Old Faith for a New Day
The Old Faith for a New Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Recent cultural interest in evangelicalism has led to considerable confusion about what the term actually means. Many young Christians are tempted to discard the label altogether. But evangelicalism is not merely a political movement in decline or a sociological phenomenon on the rise, as it has sometimes...
Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process
Are You In or Are You Out?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book delivers 101 powerful stories of courage, hope, support, and love to help cancer patients and their families. A bonus memoir by a cancer patient bound in, with intimate and helpful words of advice.
A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Africa's Informal Workers
Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on...
by Peter Browngardt, Kevin Burkhalter, Pranas Naujokaitis
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Prepare yourself for Uncle Grandpa. He is everyone's magical uncle and grandpa, and he's here to help kids with their problems in surreal and wacky ways! Explore a collection of zany shorts and games starring Uncle Grandpa, Pizza Steve, Mr. Gus, and all the other crazy characters from the hit Cartoon Network show created by Peter Browngardt. Collects the complete miniseries, issues #1-4.
by Peter Browngardt, David DeGrand, Jeremy Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
It's time for Pizza Steve's Slice of life. Take each piece out of the pie in this jam-packed anthology with a little taste of all the condiments and a big side order of extra cool! Featuring a motorcycle gang of sea monkeys, Pizza Crust Punks, the Rat Banditos, and so much more off-the-menu adventures!
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